Red Sox beat Blue Jays 7-4 in second Big O exhibition game

Toronto Blue Jays' Andy Burns is doubled out at second base by Boston Red Sox shortstop Mauricio Dubon during sixth inning spring training baseball game action, Saturday, April 2, 2016 in Montreal. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Paul Chiasson

Ryan Hanigan ignited a five-run fifth inning with a home run as the Boston Red Sox swept a two-game pre-season series against the Toronto Blue Jays with a 7-4 victory at Olympic Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

The crowd of 53,420 in the domed stadium topped the 52,682 that turned out for Boston's 4-2 win on Friday night.

It is the third year that Toronto has ended the pre-season with a pair of games at the Big O, where fans turn out in large numbers for the only Major League Baseball in town since the Montreal Expos left after the 2004 season to become the Washington Nationals.

The Blue Jays begin the regular season Sunday at Tampa Bay while Boston opens Monday against Cleveland.

Toronto scored twice off Sean O'Sullivan in the third inning as crowd favourite Russell Martin, who grew up in Montreal, lined a single to right to score Darwin Barney. Josh Donaldson followed with a single to score Roemon Fields, who was pinch-running for Kevin Pillar.

Hanigan opened the fifth with a home run to left field off Shane Dawson. Jackie Bradley singled and scored on a Josh Rutledge double.

That chased Dawson for Chad Jenkins, who allowed Mauricio Dubon to single home Rutledge, Travis Shaw to single in Dubon and Pablo Sandoval to help plate Blake Swihart, who reached on a walk, with a sacrifice fly.

The Blue Jays got two back in the seventh off Tommy Layne. Mike Reeves swung at a third strike but got to first on a wild pitch and Richard Urena scored on a throwing error. Randy Tellez drove in Reeves with a double.

The Red Sox got one run off Anthony Varvaro in the eighth when Sandy Leon's sacrifice bunt scored Travis Shaw from third. Boston added another insurance run in the ninth when Swihart drove in Rusney Castillo off Casey Lawrence.

Notes: A pre-game ceremony had a tribute to Jim Fanning, the first general manager of the Expos, who died last April. The Expos' original owner, Charles Bronfman, with his son Stephen -- one of the businessmen trying to bring the Expos back -- and former star pitcher Steve Rogers took part. A Fanning banner hung on the left field wall.